The State
represents violence in a concentrated and organised form. The individual has a
soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from
violence to which it owes its very existence. I look upon
an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although
while apparently doing good by minimising exploitation, it does the greatest
harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all
progress.
~Interview
with left- leaning anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Bose (1934)~
You assist
an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration
never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A
good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
M.K. Gandhi
By South Utsire
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